The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29

A IOkT HURON lMlch usphtch vi Neuhos-
day says: yesterday morning five men
boarded the 1:l5 a. m. Grand Trunk train at
Fort Gratiot going east and "heid up" the
passengers Several lost what money they
had, one man losing sl6l Three men have
been arrested OH suspicion, and are now IN
Jail here. The robbery was done very quietly,
and only those knew of it who were awakened
by the robbers"
SPECIAL telegram from Jefferson City,
Mo, says the State Supreme Court has given
decision in the Hugh M. Brooks, alias H.
Lennox Maxwell, murder case, in which the
finding OF the trial court was affirmed This
is the celebrated case in which Brooks, under
the name of Maxwell, was tried for the murder
of Charles Arthur Preller at the Southern
Hotel in st. Louis in April, 1886, and which
was taken mp to the Supreme Court on OK
ceptions. Brooks counsel will now, it is
said move for rehearing of the case, and if
this fails an attempt will be made TO get it be-
fore the United States Supreme Court on con-
stitutional points The date of the execution
was fixed for July II. Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias
Dr. Walker Lennox Maxwell, made the ac-
quaintance OF c. Arthur Preller. a young
English commercial traveller, on an ocean
steamer He decoyed Preller to St Louis,
where, April s. 1885, he chloroformed him 10
death at the Southern Hote'. He robbed the
remains of $1,000, and packed the body in
trunk. The murder was not discovered for
eight days, and meanwhile Maxwell was on
the Pacific, bound for Auckland New Zealand
He was arrested on his arrival and returned
20 St Louis
CINCINNATI dispatches state that the Habit
ties OF the Fidelity National Bank will reach
$1,000, 600, while the assets are rapidly dwin-
ding. Upon charges of conspiracy to de-
fraud, Messrs Harper, Baldwin, and Hop
kins were arrested Wednesday and bailed, the
former in $4,000 and the two latter in S.
900 each Another affidavit charges them
with making fraudulent report of the banks
condition to the Comptroller of the Currency
May IL last 1t is stated that Wiltshire used
Sl,000,O0J of the banks money in the great
deal
The American Forestry Congress will meet
in Springfield 1 l., Sept ID, 10, and III.
HARPER and Hopkins, OF the burst Fidelity
Bank, were surrendered by their bondsmen
at Cincinnati Thursday, and placed in jail.
Harper's assignee has resigned his position,
finding, instead of s1,0000N, bat $50 900
assets The belief is now expressed that de-
postors will not get more than II cents on
the dollar. Comptroller Trenholm is in
charge Of the bank.
THERE was hung jury in the celebrated
Cora Lee trial at Springfield, Mo.
IowA's estimated corn yield for 1887 is 2j2,-
| 502, 600 bushels.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Rail-
way Company's locomotive and repair shops
at Watertown Junction, Wis, were destroyed
| by fire. The flames wiped out the entire
plant the loss being estimated at 100000.
ED SNEED. who shot dead o. H. Loomis in
Kansas City during drunken quarrel, July
90 1884, was hanged at Independence, Mo-,
on Friday. He died without culver sneed
was tried three times for his crime. Alfred
| Blunt, a wife-murderer, was hanged at st
| Louis on Fr day. Life was extinct six min
utes and fifteen seconds after the drop fell
He died murmuring "A prayer. Blunt muir
| dered his wife with razor in fit of jealousy,
| May 81 1885, He was 81 years old
A DISPATCH from Blun City, Utah, says
that party of five Navajo Indians visited the
trading post of A. NJ Barton and killed him
! One of the Indians lassoed him ami threw him
| to the floor; two others seized his legs and
arms, while fourth shot him several times
in the head They then helped themselves to
the contents of the store and departed with
out mole sting the wife or family of the muir
dered man, who had taken refuge in the room
adjoining the store.
SIDNEY CoRBETr, a newspaper reporter of
Jackson, Mich, was publicly horsewhipped in
that place on Friday. by the wife of the editor
of the Doiiy Courier, for his alleged agency in
procuring the publication of scandalous
story regarding her.
The Chicago EccniRg Journal, in an edi-
torial on Chicago as IA Theatrical City" says:
That Chicago is of the great theatrical
| cities of the world is conceded by all who
| familiar with the facts. II has ut least FIVE
theaters regarded OF the first order, both as
| 20 capacity aud tine excellence OF their enter
tainments, while some Il those that are second
| class 70 capacity frst-class in the way
| they are managed, and in the various attractions
| presented to their audiences At the present
| time, two Of the finest and most expensive dra-
matte companies in the world are doing good
| business in Chicago A. NJ. Palmer's Company
at McNickers, and Augustin Dalvs Company
at Hooeys, the season in each bidding fair TO
extend over weeks, IL not months Of oar delight
| full summer weather. The fact that Chicago is a
theatrical city of high order is of it's greatest
attractions TO travellers. It's theaters, like all
else that makes it a remark able city, III among
the earliest objects sought by sight seers. They
are as widely known by their respective names
| as its lake crib, from which its water supply
is drawn, its great buildings, ITS boulevards
and parks, its colossal banks and business
| houses, and its hotels Nearly all business
men who come to Chicago from the interior
| or distant points visit tho thenters, mat
ter of course, and they often bring their fam
| lilies TO enjoy the delights which the Chicago
stage affords. Travellers from the West To the
East. from the asst to the West. and from the
centers e. the borders of business and popula-
| ton, maze their stay in Chicago longer and
more enjoyable by visiting the dramatic per-
| formancIs which they can always hnd in one
| or more Of our large theaters.